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It may not be. But when nobody comes it is easy to get discouraged. Couple that with other duties, age, health, multiple parishes, etc.

You also left out priests being chastised and disciplined by their bishops for attempting to do what the Holy See has consistently directed.

All of these factors are cumulative and iterative. Each reinforces the others. In aviation, we would call this a "non-recoverable death spiral".

Last edited by StuartK; 03/17/13 03:31 PM.